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Osceola's story, which she then told in jail to explain her medical problem, was that she had cancer. Seminole was
worried because she knew Osceola had a pipe stuck in her stomach and was in extreme pain. But Seminole told me
the lying story about cancer, because she assumed Osceola was still in jail, and all her communications with me
were monitored. Osceola then told me the semi-true story that it was a piece of metal stuck in her stomach, because
she was actually at home. But she still didn't tell me the contraband part.
The point is, girls in jail tell complicated elaborate stories. And there is no way for a stranger to determine what is
true, or if any of it is true, even after thinking about it for six months. People who deal with girls in jail all the time,
such as prosecutors, must have already figured this out a long time ago. So any plan to use testimony from girls in
jail, by someone who is familiar with girls in jail, is a blatant and conscious plan to use lies. And to exploit the
naivete of jurors, who are not familiar with girls in jail.
Prosecutors put the word out in the jail that they need witnesses, when the case is big in the news, and they don't
have anything. I got hints from a number of girls that they had been pressured to come up with stories about Mandi,
and other girls in jail. Like a girl who knew Ishnar Lopez-Ramos, suddenly denied having met her. She was
paranoid somehow the prosecutors would bring her dropped charges back, to try again to pressure her to testify.
Another girl who knew Mandi suddenly said like she had no idea what Mandi was even charged with. She had fear
in her voice, fear of prosecutors ratcheting up her charges and holding her, to pressure her to testify.
Perhaps as many as 12 girls in jail provided prosecutors different stories where they claimed Mandi confessed to
them. Which is not surprising, given Mandi was an invited guest of Mulrenin who arrived and left without Scott,
and could not have been in contact with Scott. There was no other way for prosecutors to prove Mandi's mind
contained a plan to collude with Scott and rob Mulrenin. Of those probably 12 jail girls who made up some
confession story, I only ever found out what four actually claimed Mandi told them. And of those four, only two
made it to the stand at Mandi's trial.
The first was Julie Madara, a forty-something self-described indulgent addict who burglarized people's homes, and
sold their heirlooms for drugs. She had convictions for 15 felonies and 2 misdemeanor crimes of dishonesty, and
was facing a 10-year sentence, when she learned Mandi knew many of the same people as her, and began
researching Mandi's case on her own. Madara is an alcoholic, with a stunted cranium that suggests her mother was
also an alcoholic. Madara blamed Mandi's attorney for losing one of her cases a few years earlier, and wanted
revenge.
The second was Maletta Young, a habitual offender who had been selling drugs and getting felonies at least since
she was 20. 10 years later around age 30, Maletta was convicted for selling every drug except marijuana at once -
fentanyl, heroin, cocaine, meth, pills - while possessing a loaded firearm as a convicted felon, and extra bullets in a
drug baggie, and also for arranging an aggravated home-invasion battery where she stepped over the body of the
helpless victim who had been kicked in the head. Maletta was an informant on an unknown number of cases, was
released without bond, and got just two years for everything I just listed. Maletta got 21 new felony charges just
between Mandi getting arrested and Mandi's trial, and ended up not testifying for some reason unknown to me.
The third was 18-year-old Kaylee Simmons looking at five total felony convictions, including carjacking and
kidnapping, and facing a minimum of 10.5 years and a maximum of life. Kaylee Simmons was a proud teen lesbian,
a sort of retarded savant who could probably remember the second she was born but garbled certain words, a child
sexual abuse and trafficking victim, and was just downright creepy and unfortunate. I can't imagine what kind of
sick men paid to stick their dicks in that haunted-house character. She was also Mandi's best friend in jail until they
got caught kissing on camera and separated. Kaylee made a deal to provide secret information on four different
cases. One of the cases, Tina Poirier, told Mandi that Kaylee just went into her cell and read her police report.
The fourth story about Mandi came from Ishnar Lopez-Ramos, the infamous love-triangle murder-for-hire case in
Kissimmee. She wanted to kill her boyfriend's new girlfriend. They kidnapped the wrong person by mistake, a total
stranger, an innocent mother. They put a bag over her head and beat her anyway. The prosecution offered Lopez 60
years. Then she wrote a document claiming to have confessions from three or four different cases, and they offered
her 40 years. Nothing came of it by the time of Mandi's trial.
Mandi became aware of Lopez's claimed confessions, because Lopez's cellmate copied them down hoping to use